The Lord has been teaching me lately about the power of asking others to pray for me as I walk out the dreams God has for me.

Truth be told, it can feel vulnerable to ask for prayer. I do not want to appear needy. I can allow the enemy to whisper to my heart that it is selfish to ask others to pray for me.

I can start thinking about real prayer requests like cancer, prodigal children and divorce.

How can I ask for prayer for my dreams?

Then I am reminded that Paul often asked people to join Him in his ministry through their ministry of prayer.

At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—Colossians 4:3 ESV

Recently I was getting ready to follow one of my God-sized dreams, doing trauma mitigation and debriefing for adults and children who had been through the recent 7.8 earthquake in Ecuador. I found out one week before that God was opening the door for me to go. This was a God-sized dream as part of my ministry dreams involve ministering internationally.

I was busy making preparations. Getting ready for the program we were going to lead there. Packing. Getting a suitcase full of crayons to take to the children as we led them through art therapy.

In the midst of my preparations, I felt very impressed to invite others to pray me through this dream journey.

I was almost hesitate as I asked my church for prayer. The Sunday before I left, several from my church community gathered around and prayed. It was an incredible powerful moment.

Inviting others to pray invited them on this journey of faith with me.

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About Jennifer Hand

Jenn Hand is a strong coffee drinking lover of Jesus. She has a zest for life and loves to go on adventure with Jesus around the world – often getting lost somewhere along the way! Jenn has been professionally speaking since 2004 and became the Executive Director and founder of Coming Alive Ministries in 2012. She spent two life changing years overseas in South Asia as a missionary and has traveled to many third world countries to share the love of Jesus. You can find Jenn on Twitter, Instagram and Coming Alive Ministries.

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I love the fact that you had prayer partners to give you the confidence and assurance of God’s hand on your journey of faith. I have a lesser prayer need and it is a dream that I could buy a vacation home near my boys and their families. It is not expensive to find a small 2 bedroom home, but may be objections. Pray it would be a reality.

Thank you so much for this! It really spoke to me because I feel many times my requests aren’t big and don’t need everyone to pray. I am definitely a “needy” person and reading this made me realize there’s nothing wrong with that. I need God every hour! Thanks so much. It was a blessing to me.

Kim it is so amazing that we do need God every hour isn’t it. I hate how the enemy tries to make us feel condemned for being needy.. when in reality this is exactly how God made us to be. Praying for you.